Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delaney was unconvinced as he held out his hand . |
| 2 | Moran looked stern and self-conscious as he drove up the short avenue . |
| 3 | Are the hit-squad as well-meaning as they make out ? |
| 4 | , Right , I 'm now going to hand out the score sheets for you , do n't worry about the initials at the top of the columns , because they will become clear as we go on . |
| 5 | I tend to paint very quickly , so the paint is always rather damp as I flit round the paper , putting a colour here and one there , and at first it all looks a bit of a jumble . |
| 6 | Joanna had cheered up considerably by the time Sophie had finished , and Sophie 's spirits were still high as she drove out to visit the old ladies ' home . |
| 7 | Hari thought again of her father and sitting there on the edge of her seat she believed that the man standing before her , handsome and young though he might be , was the same kind of man as Dewi Morgan , upright and steadfast , his eyes clear and direct as they looked down at her . |
| 8 | It 's getting light as we scramble down one side of a blown bridge across a river , then scramble up the other side , slipping down , and pulling each other up again until we are all assembled on a grassy bank . |
| 9 | He heard a scrabbling at the foot of his cell door and two small dark shadows blocked the faint line of light as they squirmed under and scurried across the cell floor . |
| 10 | Ben 's heart was light as he swung along through the meadows that lay before the heights of Lulling Woods . |
| 11 | This too had to be curbed on cost grounds , along with plans for two monolithic block-like structures , within the control room , which would darken to black as the ship landed , and fill with light as it took off . |
| 12 | She could feel that she was already soaking wet as she nuzzled up to him like a happy , purring cat . |
| 13 | Derived from the Indian reel , with extensions to allow the line to run free as it spools out with the ends spinning in the hands , the plastic reel is to be recommended . |
| 14 | His expression was inscrutable as he gazed back at her . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know what , ’ replied Mr. Gordon , looking grave as he stared up at the circling plane . |
| 16 | Ari felt very old as she walked back to the group . |
| 17 | The church seems to be slightly set away from the village , and is very elusive as you drive through , being only reached either through a farmyard or down a lane off the road to Wansford . |
| 18 | It was a bit different as it turned out . |
| 19 | Hoffman 's measurement of the gamma spectrum was their third signature for neutrons : first there had been their own relatively crude neutron measurements with the dosimeter , then they had seen Jones ' suggestive neutron spectrum and now this ( erroneous as it turned out ) gamma peak . |
| 20 | I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction . |
| 21 | The morning was her usual time for coming , a flurry of nurses preceding her , squaring comers of blankets , clearing lockers , thumping pillows , crisp and antiseptic as they swept through . |
| 22 | Cos I was more or less going as she come in . |
| 23 | Jean-Claude , exhausted by the long ride from Paris and a late night of in-toxication , moaned something unintelligible as I got out of bed , rolled over and promptly went back to sleep . |
| 24 | The night was dark as we set off in file through the trees after checking our weapons . |
| 25 | It was dark as they sailed back up river to Lees ' wharf . |
| 26 | By the look of him , however , his chief had not perhaps shared a similarly successful period of recuperation , for he sounded tetchy as he picked up the brief note Lewis had left him . |
| 27 | Though a good performance on the Gloucestershire track at any other time of the year counts for something , it 's nothing to get carried away over , while the top performers through the winter months elsewhere are often made to look ordinary as they toil up the Prestbury Park hill . |
| 28 | Galvanised into action by the very idea , she rose abruptly to her feet , striving to keep her expression impassive as she glanced down into Candy 's surprised eyes . |
| 29 | The new stand looks very imposing as you come down the M621 towards it . |
| 30 | As a pedestrian , however Shaw was still supremely noticeable as he sailed by in his knee breeches and Norfolk jacket for walks of up to six miles . |